China’s Václav Havel moment?
China’s Covid policy shift is undermining the regime’s social compact and the legitimacy of the ruling Communist Party, experts suggest. “The zero-Covid policy has impacted the poor more than the… Read more »
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Russian dissident Kara-Murza wins Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize
Imprisoned Russian opposition figure and vocal Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza has been awarded the 2022 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize, say reports: Awarded every year by the Parliamentary Assembly of the… Read more »
Hong Kong activists ‘channeling the spirit’ of Vaclav Havel
“I have chosen to live a life of truth,” Lee Cheuk-yan (above), chairperson of the group behind Hong Kong’s annual Tiananmen vigil, said in an unapologetic mitigation statement before being jailed earlier this… Read more »
Jailed Belarusian activist awarded Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize
Jailed Belarusian opposition figure Maryya Kalesnikava has won the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize awarded annually by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to honor “outstanding” civil… Read more »
‘Havel Speaking, Can You Hear Me?’
A special event Václav Havel, Speaking Today, with a keynote address by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (above), will highlight the historic speech 30 years ago before the… Read more »
Balkans youth network & Uyghur intellectual win Havel Human Rights Prize
In 2003, a group of young people from Kosovo and Serbia established the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) in Belgrade to connect young people from the two countries… Read more »
Havel’s legacy is timeless, Dalai Lama tells Forum 2000
About 1000 people, some of them carrying Tibetan flags or posters reading Free Tibet, came to Prague’s Hradcany Square to welcome the Dalai Lama, who arrived to attend the 20th… Read more »
Reaffirming Havel’s legacy
Václav Havel – the subject of a commemorative conference at the National Endowment for Democracy today to mark his legacy – was born in Prague on this day eighty years ago,… Read more »
Havel’s legacy: the challenge of democratic renewal
Conference Agenda 9:00-9:15am: Welcoming Remarks Speakers: Carl Gershman, President, National Endowment for Democracy 9:15-9:30am: Introductory Remarks Speakers: Madeleine Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group… Read more »
Experts call for release of ‘courageous’ Nobel laureate Bialiatski
UN experts today reiterated calls for the release of Ales Bialiatski after the Nobel Committee’s decision to symbolically award him the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize for his fearless work promoting… Read more »